THANKSGIVING SPECIAL

SLEEPY HOLLOW BROADCAST

Sirius XM Radio will present the 8th annual broadcast of our award winning production, THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW on Halloween night, Wed. Oct. 31st at 8PM Eastern Ch. 80.

AMAZON

STAR ANGEL SOUNDTRACK on AMAZON

In the NO MAN LIKE A SNOW MAN ON THE GREAT WHITE WAY department, the Original Cast Recording of our new musical, THE STAR ANGEL, just went live on Amazon! Check it out! The production will be released everywhere on Nov. 5th.

THE STAR ANGEL Original Cast Recording

This'n'That

This week we'll be recording THE BLACK ARROW by Robert Louis Stevenson. Very excited about this one, as it has always been a favorite story of mine. It will complete our adaptations of RLS stories that started with TREASURE ISLAND, and continued on with KIDNAPPED and DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE.  Newcomers Colin Budzyna and Natalie Vatcher head up a cast of CRT veterans that include J.T. Turner, Joe Caliendo Jr., and Tom Berry. An exciting tale set during the War of the Roses, look for this one to be released late in 2013.

THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW will have it's 8th annual broadcast on Sirius XM Halloween day. Not sure of the time yet. Have you heard this one yet? Jeff wrote an amazing music score, one of my favorites I might add, and I can't think of a better Ichabod Crane than Lincoln Clark.  Some people have commented that the show isn't violent enough, or scary enough ... unfortunately, Tim Burton took a great story and turned it into his own vision (basically just using the title and tossing everything else away), to the point where many of today's listeners think that is how the story goes.   SLEEPY HOLLOW, as written by Washington Irving, instead paints a vivid picture of Autumn in New England and the atmosphere of a town built on legend. Is the Headless Horseman real - or just part of that legend that makes everything a little more magical when the leaves turn to red, orange, purple?  We did the book as written by Irving, not the movie bastardized by Burton .... which is why some younger listeners write to me telling me how I screwed the story up!  No kidding!

POWDER RIVER SEASON 7 is now in the can and awaiting editing, and we have agreed to record an 8th season, which, when completed, will bring our episode count to 120!

Next week we have the premiere at the QP Playhouse for THE STAR ANGEL, and all proceeds we raise will be for the Dana Farber Childrens Cancer Center. The money won't be used for research, but for presents and things to brighten up the ward.  I'm sure I'll have some pictures to post of the event.

THE CANTERVILLE GHOST continues in post production with CRT Producer Bryan Rothrock. It's sounding great so far!  This production is significant to everyone here at CRT as it is the final leading performance by our friend Hugh Metzler, who passed away August 14h. In the role of Lord Canterville, Hugh turned in another gem of a performance with that one of a kind style of his. We will be dedicating this production in his memory when it is released in May of 2013.

THE STAR ANGEL

THE STAR ANGEL - ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING

Just released on iTunes is the Original Cast Recording of our new musical, THE STAR ANGEL. Twelve brand new songs by C-R-T composer Jeffrey Gage are included on this album, and they are sure to get you humming along and singing out loud once you learn the words (especially the show stopping SNOWMAN SPECTACULAR!).

THE STAR ANGEL - A Musical For Christmas. Original Cast Recording.

BEACON HILL IS COMING SOON

On Sunday night, Dec. 30th, on Sirius XM Ch. 80, we will premiere BEACON HILL - a mini-series of eight, one hour episodes. Here is a little trailer we made, featuring the "Theme from Beacon Hill," by Austin Davy. We have a great cast assembled for this show, which is set in Boston in 1898. M.J. Cogburn is producing.

CD and DL release will be in the spring.

On Nov.5th we will be releasing our first feature length holiday musical, THE STAR ANGEL.

Young Sean and his sister Samantha, caught in the magical sparkles from a broken snow globe, are shrunk down to ornament-size on Christmas Eve.  With the help of the ornaments on the tree, they must journey to the top where the Star Angel can restore them to their normal size, and help Sean rediscover the joy of the season in light of the recent death of their father.With 15 new songs by Jeffrey Gage, THE STAR ANGEL features Shana Dirik, J.T. Turner, Mark Thurner, Kerry Donovan and Andrew Monroe.

Here is a little video we did to showcase the overture, which highlights some of the new songs (excuse the poor video - we make radio plays, not movies!) 

Our new release for October!

AMAZON CD

AMAZON DL

AUDIBLE

iTUNES

THE HALLOWEEN TREE

One of my favorite productions we did with the great Ray Bradbury was the radio dramatization of his book, THE HALLOWEEN TREE.  We recorded it in December of 2006, but it was not released until 2008. I never really understood the Publishers Weekly review that our sound effects consisted mostly of "wind," when we used literally thousands of effects (did they listen to the kite scene?) - but oh well.  Some critics complained of the songs in the show - but when dramatize a book - we dramatize the book, and all the songs in our production are in the book (with the Lyrics by Ray Bradbury, and the music by Jeff Gage).

If you haven't heard it - you can check it out on Amazon THE HALLOWEEN TREE

or AUDIBLE     or even iTunes

Here is the review from BRADBURY MEDIA  in the audio CD section